The name of the game. I have a confession to make. These are not gambling games I hasten to add. One site I use is CardGames. And one of the games I play is whist. A few days ago it occurred to me to ask myself why it is called whist. Here is a possible answer from the OED.

While Chinese characters are inimical to the full writing of the topolects, they occasionally can be used to convey a sense of certain aspects of various local or regional forms of speech. The AFP raids were at the behes.

Occasional observations on English pronunciation features, phonetics, teaching and learning. Friday, 30 March 2018. Twenty-six English first-graders were presented with the first half of several proverbs and were asked to provide the second half. The vertical line indicates the end of the first half.

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If you are going to broadcast your views about language, you might want to get a few things straight first. Are semi-colons a sign of madness? And it is divided into only two sentences that are hundreds of words long. Massive verbosity, said Dr Garrard, is associated with the manic phases of bipolar disorder. And Dr Worsley chimed in to report that there are contemporary descriptions of the poor mad king that described him as talking and talking till the foam ran out of his mouth.